I am
now taking two accounting classes. The
language is foreign to me. I do okay in
accounting 108 but I seem to be reading (and hearing) binary code for the
other. I have seen the names of only two
other classmates who are currently taking both classes. What is up with that? Just because I don't see their names doesn't
mean all my other classmates are taking the same two classes but with different
instructors. I personally would rather
have just one at a time - or at least one on Monday morning and not have to
wait for a walk through for both classes on Tuesday evening . . . and still
replay the recordings over and over in hopes that I'll understand.
I
like my 108 instructor. He's not
boring. He is easy to follow. I understand what he says. If I have a question or concern, he gets back
to me right away. I am comfortable with
the subject - mostly input and data. The
class has been learning how to use QuickBooks - which I believed I'd been set
up for prior to my account.
Unfortunately, I had my user name as my hotmail name and my server at
yahoo - which I don't have an account for with my hotmail name. And so I spent much of the first week trying
to correct that and struggled in my 213 class.
I still do. I don't know what
questions to ask because I'm just not understanding the language or following
my instructor. Fortunately there have
been a few students in the class who have been able to explain things in a more
watered down version that has made more sense to me. It's still a foreign language though.
I
have NO intentions of trying to start my own business or franchise. It seems to be Roland's dream, but has never
been mine. Especially now. I find his classes like a thousand times more
confusing than any accounting class that I've had. I learn from entertaining videos. There are NO entertaining videos. Let's face it: Accounting is a subject that is incapable of
entertainment. It is definitely work.
My
instructor reminds me of my brother-in-law, who often tries to hard at
entertaining. It's not faked enthusiasm
necessarily - it's like a teacher trying too hard to be accepted of his students
that he does his best at becoming one of them.
I think he might have the approval of a few of my classmates, but
honestly, I am not on board. He throws
us imaginary caramels as he can't toss us real ones. His suggestion is that we each go out and
purchase our own caramels but we're not allowed to take any from the container
unless he "gives" it to us.
You
know what's great about being an online student? You don't have to get dressed to go to
class. You can eat lunch as you listen
to lectures. You can roll your eyes or
make faces at the instructor and he/she
will never know. You can make snide
comments so long as your mike is muted.
My
PC doesn't have a microphone. I have to
use the laptop if I actually want/need to converse. It certainly is a lot faster than typing
(especially on the laptop - for me anyway).
Most of the time the instructor mutes those with microphones
anyway. But it is quicker to ask
questions vocally than to type them out.
Laptops belong to the school until graduation.
I
started discussions in both of my classes.
I enjoy the topic more in 108. In
213 I did some research but not enough to analyze a satisfactory answer. I stated how foreign the accounting language
feels to me, gave a couple of examples, and how in-house financing might be
perceived from the customer's end, but asked a question on how it's paid off
once an invoice goes to collection or if how it works on the business end if a
creditor advocate is involved.
I'm
still learning. Sometimes it feels like
a painful process. Often I make more of
something than really needs to be.
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